Since WoW Cataclysm Classic has been online for about a week, I am going to share with you an efficient gold making guide which can help you obtain tons of gold in WoW Cataclysm Classic. It contains methods from AFK gold making to daily quests and some others. Let's get started!
Overview
Below are 4 specific types of gold making in WoW Cataclysm Classic.
- Open World Farming: This is the least scalable method of them all. But it is a very important way to generate that initial income to level professions.
- Profession-Based Methods: Crafting items that bind gear to sell, prospecting ores to sell gems, or you can even gamble on Darkmoon Cards and sell them on Auction House.
- Daily Quests: These have an outsized importance in WoW Cataclysm Classic because they're used to gate some of the most lucrative recipes in Azeroth.
- AFK: This is the most scalable method of them all. These are the AFK passive cooldowns from professions that allow you to generate thousands of gold per week.
Open World Farming
Let's quickly start with open world farming. The reason we're starting with that is that if you want to make large number of WoW Cataclysm Classic Gold, you kind of have to have some startup gold. So, Volatile elements farming is the most popular method by far right now.
What I would do is search the Auction House for all the different elements - Volatile Fire, Volatile Air, Volatile Water, and Volatile Earth. Whichever one's the most valuable, that's what you're going to go out and farm.
- For Volatile Air, my recommended location would be Uldum near the middle of the map.
- For Volatile Water, which is currently the most valuable on my server, that would be west of Dragonmaw Port.
- For Volatile Earth, which is cratering in price and I would not recommend farming it, that would be found near Black Breach in Twilight Highlands.
- For Volatile Fire, east of Sulfuron Spire in Mount Hyjal is a very good spot as well.
Profession-Based Methods
Let's then talk about professional gold making in detail. After leveling, you can immediately rush your Jewelcrafting to 500 to prospect Pyrite Ore. It's worth noting that with any of these professions, you could actually max them out at Level 75 and don't have to be Level 85.
With so many Miners at the start of the phase, you are able to buy over 12,000 Pyrite Ore very cheaply. It is important to note that this ore is purchased in large chunks. Prospecting that nearly 200,000 gold worth of ores led to a variety of gems.
In addition, Prospecting works in Cataclysm are exactly like it did in Wrath of the Lich King. You can just get 5 ores and use macros to spam as fast as possible. Each prospect has a chance to generate uncommon gems and the new Inferno Rubies are still the most valuable item by far to receive in Prospecting.
Next, let me talk about some specific ways I'm taking. The 2 methods I'm setting myself up with for a full expansion of wealth are daily quests and passive gold-making. The 2 methods I'm setting myself up with for a full expansion of wealth are daily quests and passive gold making.
Daily Quests
As for daily quests, the new Tol Barad daily quests reward about 50 gold each. So, just one time per day before Tol Barad, I'm going to pick up all the quests near the portal, and then complete all the quests. We can earn over 350 gold in about 20 minutes. In other words, unless you are playing in an Alliance, you can make gold using this method. These dailies are setting characters up that'll make us tens of thousands of gold in the next couple of weeks.
Starting with Jewelcrafting, these new dailies are arguably the single best long-term profit maker in WoW Cataclysm Classic. Your reward for doing that is 16 gold. Far more importantly, you get a Jewelcrafter's Token.
These tokens are used to get recipes so you can cut rare gems like the Bold Inferno Rubies for Warriors. Since the recipes take so long to get, you're guaranteed profit by doing these cuts for the next several weeks.
However, this isn't the only daily quest that Blizzard designed to heavily reward the savviest and most dedicated players though. Azeroth's brightest gold makers are speeding up their Cooking as quickly as possible. The reason to do these dailies, just like with Jewelcrafting, is to unlock the invaluable recipes.
These recipes are gated behind Chef's Award, and you can only get these from daily quests. The more recipes you have, the more potential gold you have flipping on the Auction House. Profit potential is well over 5,000 gold per hour.
AFK
The last method to talk about is passive AFK gold making. After all, Cooking and Jewelcrafting still require a fair amount of manual backbreaking labor. The single best profession cooldown by far is Truegold. Truegold is a one-day cooldown, so every single day you can make over 1,000 gold like clockwork.
The next best profession cooldown is Dreamcloth, and that is a bind-on-pickup cooldown and it uses Embersilk Cloth and Volatile elements. The way that you unload your profit is to craft items like the Dreamless Belt, and then you can sell those items on the Auction House for insane profit. Currently, the belts are worth over 18,000 gold right now to mages.
Conclusion
Having talked about the 4 ways of Cataclysm gold making, from the open world farming to the professions, the dailies, and of course the cooldowns. Hopefully, you are set up to maximize your profit-making. I'm curious what you think about gold making in WoW Cataclysm Classic.
